How to Sign Up on Stake

Stake's terms of service are direct about who may register. The age rule is not only the minimum age in the terms: it is that age or the age of majority, or of gambling, where you are, whichever is greater. The exact wording is in the first card below. The law where you live is a second gate: the terms bar registration from places where gambling is not permitted.

One sentence is easy to read past. Stake says it cannot verify whether its service may be used in each place, and that making sure your own use is allowed is your responsibility. In other words, Stake hands the judgement back to you. This site does not make that judgement either. Whether the law where you live allows you to use the service is for you to establish, and it is worth doing before you register, not after.

Two more rules matter just as much. Each player may hold only one account, and a second account is not allowed. And the terms treat the use of a VPN, a proxy or a similar service, or the giving of false residence details, to get around location restrictions as a breach of the terms. This page does not teach and does not recommend any way of hiding where you are.

Stake has no step-by-step registration guide, and this site will not invent what the form looks like. What Stake does write down is how a registration is credited to a referrer. The sign-up form has an optional field labelled "Code (Optional)". A referral code entered there overrides the referral link, because Stake gives codes priority over links.

If you want to use a referral link instead, Stake's requirement is that the link is clicked before you register and that you then sign up directly from it. Do it in the other order and the credit may not match. Each account can be tied to only one affiliate, so one account is never shared between two referrers.

This site may earn a commission if you register through its link or code, and it says so on the home page. If you would rather go to Stake yourself and register without this site's link, the rules are the same.

Once registration is complete, the next step is to verify your email. Stake's sequence is to select Verify Account, open Confirm Your Email in the Account Setup window, collect the verification code from your inbox, enter it in the field and submit. The button names are given in the card as Stake writes them in English, so you can match them to the screen.

If you skipped this at sign-up, you have not lost the chance: Stake says it can be completed later from your account settings. Do not leave it too long, though. The deposit and withdrawal pages both rely on Stake's statement that your email and account must be verified before you can deposit. Those pages are the natural next read.

Beyond email, Stake may ask for identity documents. It lists the types it accepts: an international passport, a national identity card or a driving licence, where the card and the licence are shown on both sides. Other types of document are not accepted.

There are rules about the photograph too. The original image must be uploaded and screenshots are refused; the document must stay valid for the minimum period Stake states in the card; and only photographed documents are accepted, not documents in digital format. It is easier to photograph your document clearly in advance than to hunt for a file when you are asked.

Be prepared for checks at any time. Stake says its compliance team reserves the right to request any documentation whenever it likes, and its terms add that it may restrict the service, payments or withdrawals until your identity is sufficiently determined. A check does not necessarily happen at registration; it can come later. For how support and verification work in more detail, see the support and identity-verification page.

This site is written in English, which is the language of Stake's terms, but it is still only a summary. Stake's terms say that the English version is the only basis of the relationship between you and Stake, and that if a translation differs, the English version prevails. For anything that matters to you, go back to the quoted wording in the cards rather than relying on this site's paraphrase.

Stake's rules can change and this site's summary can fall behind. For any condition that affects you in practice, read Stake's own page again before you act on it.

Gambling carries risk, and money that is lost does not come back. Before you register, decide how much you can afford to lose and never use borrowed money. Stake describes two tools of its own, shown below: a loss limit and self-exclusion.

If you feel you are losing control, contact a gambling support service in the country where you live. This site lists no helpline, because it has not verified one that serves every English-speaking reader and would rather not name a service that may not cover you.